Tips for creating a slaver empire

[Poltergeist]

Hello all,

I am getting back into Stellaris, and want to explore a race/empire that focuses on kidnapping pops from planets as slaves, then destroying them entirely.

Is this viable? Can you point me to guides, or give me tips on how to create this race?

Thank you!

[Nolo Contendere]

Barbaric Despoilers civic or Nihilistic Aquisition ascension perk.

[Primordial Hunter]

Originally posted by Nolo Contendere:

Barbaric Despoilers civic or Nihilistic Aquisition ascension perk.

Dont forget the slaver guilds civic or indntured assests

[Exarch_Alpha]

I think the extra influence alone makes the ethic quite good. With extra food from slaves it´s almost impossible to not be able to trade while still promoting pop growth. Wouldn´t say it´s OP but it has plenty of good choices

[TRIUMPH]

Purge them by working them to death. It'll feed you minerals and food and you won't have to deal with the unrest issues down the line.

For trads/perks i'd go discovery or suprem first depending on if you want to attempt an all-in on corvs. You're gonna want to be able to match eng ship tech however this won't help a lot on grand admiral because they get to fleet spam for free basically but anywhere else having 4+ alloy production on a planet should allow you to destroy early game. Suprem just adds much needed fire power to that cake.

[FIBBIDEH]

Originally posted by Advent:

Originally posted by Nolo Contendere:

Barbaric Despoilers civic or Nihilistic Aquisition ascension perk.

Dont forget the slaver guilds civic or indntured assests

You don't even need that. Just be xenophobic and enslave every xeno. Less unnecessary and unemployed slaves milling around research and other specialist focused planets.

I did this and established myself right up to where I got evolutionary mastery, then I specialized my slaves, nerve stapled them, then abducted/concentration camped everyone else to extinction.

After I got the colossus I managed -4000 diplomatic rating for several AI empires who were all federated with each other.